Writes our submitter in Madison, Wisconsin: “A coworker was cutting his fingernails into a community desk at work, so another coworker put on rubber gloves, collected the cuttings, and then put them into a sandwich bag with this note stapled on back in the drawer.”
The real kicker, though? As it turns out, there’s actually more than one nail-clipping culprit in the office, our submitter says, ”because several people took the note personally.”
Wha-wha-WHAT? I mean, one office weirdo — that’s practically a given. But an entire gang of clandestine communal-desk-drawer-nail-clipping coworkers? That’s just messed up.
related: Sorry, I thought those were the *shared* office toenail clippers
54 responses so far ↓
#1
pony girl
Bad clip you!
May 29, 2011 at 9:49 pm rating: 23
#2
fuzzbutt
i had a guy who would clip his toenails in the office. Really? toetails??
May 29, 2011 at 9:50 pm rating: 15
#3
Nik
ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew
who thinks this is proper conduct!?
wish i had an interrobang for that…
May 29, 2011 at 9:51 pm rating: 11
#4
Charlotte
“…several people took the note personally.”
Several people are gross. Really really gross.
May 29, 2011 at 9:53 pm rating: 45
#5
JetJackson
Doesn’t every workplace have a communal nail clipping drawer?
May 29, 2011 at 10:11 pm rating: 25
#6
Divvitar
Don’t people have better things to do at work, or do they just enjoy getting paid to do their personal grooming?
May 29, 2011 at 10:19 pm rating: 14
#7
Kay
Ugh. I am pathetic. I hang my head in shame.
I worked out of a meeting room with a team of pigs who left their used tissues everywhere during cold/bronchitis/pneumonia season. The cleaners refused to clean them up. The snot-heads refused to confess whose snot was whose, but continued the daily piles. I too used gloves to corral them (and then wipe the tables with disinfectant).
And now I am freakin’ serious when I say I should have bagged and labelled them instead of throwing them out every day so I could work there without gagging. F*ck. I learn so much on the Internet. Would have been most useful earlier in my career.
Thank you.
May 29, 2011 at 10:20 pm rating: 22
#8
Sonya
For a second there, I thought this guy was literally building a desk from his nail clippings.
May 29, 2011 at 10:23 pm rating: 3
#9
Roundredhead
I think this is a case where a little more is needed than a passive aggressive note. I think the offended office worker should have gathered the nail clippings and then taken a piece of cardboard and carefully drawn a pentagram and placed the nail clippings in the middle of it along with some half-burned black candles. A little phony witchcraft should clear this behavior right up. If that doesn’t work, I think you can get books describing more authentic spells…
May 29, 2011 at 11:07 pm rating: 35
#10
James L.
Don’t these co-workers realize that this is entirely inappropriate and that the only proper place to clip one’s nails is on public transportation during rush hour?
May 29, 2011 at 11:09 pm rating: 36
#11
Old Uncle Toe
”because several people took the note personally.”
If I may translate: “I am offended that you complain that I clip my nails and leave them in a drawer.”
I am in awe of that strong a mistaken sense of entitlement. Perhaps these people should run for congress.
May 29, 2011 at 11:26 pm rating: 18
#12
TickleMyBambo
To go to work and open up a drawer full of nail clippings everyday would drive me over the edge. UGH, There is a trash can for a reason people! These happy go lucky nail clipping co-workers have no consideration towards their non nail clipping co-workers to take into account how this would gross the later out. How else could you explain the ridiculous outrage by these slobs over this note? I bet you they probably pick their noses and wipe their boogers all over the walls and under desks because they don’t feel like using a tissue. All this would be enough reason to file for a resignation and find another job elsewhere, hopefully there isn’t any leftover nail clippings stuck on the resume.
May 29, 2011 at 11:50 pm rating: 8
#13
Pun DMC
*stands up*
*Golf clips*
May 30, 2011 at 12:09 am rating: 1
#14
Mrs.Beasley
Oh lordy, this entire revolting situation is beyond the pale!
May 30, 2011 at 12:46 am rating: 1
#15
Canthz_B
Aw, that’s so cuticle.
But really, I’m glad someone decided to (o)nyx this behavior off at the root, otherwise, it could lead to yet another sequel of “The Matrix”.
May 30, 2011 at 1:49 am rating: 1
#16
zenvelo
What? No clip-art?
Not PA enough….
May 30, 2011 at 10:02 am rating: 7
#17
Dr Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff
Sounds like they just have reached a consensus that this will now be The Nail Clipping Drawer. It’s a social contract, people!
May 30, 2011 at 11:06 am rating: 2
#18
Isa
Someone did this very thing sitting behind me on the bus one morning. Every single *clip* sound made me flinch/gag. I didn’t take it for long – I had to get off the bus and even shook my hair out because I was paranoid I had nail clippings stuck in there somewhere!! To this day the memory makes me shudder…ew ew ew!
May 30, 2011 at 11:25 am rating: 4
#19
Jes
I used to work at a medical office where some patients would sit in the waiting room and cut their nails. Public clipping is never appropriate. I can see ONE nail because of a break or something, but not all of them.
I also shared a desk with someone who would pick their nose and use the computer keyboard while they were covering for my breaks. Really classy.
All yuck.
May 30, 2011 at 11:41 am rating: 3
#20
broketaxpayer
I was at an airport years ago and a young woman was clipping her TOENAILS in the fast food restaurant eating area. This guy said something to her about how disgusting her behavior was. You know what her excuse was? She had a three hour lay over. This is a true story. Also, there were benches in the bathroom where she could have done this. Disgusting!
May 30, 2011 at 6:14 pm rating: 4
#21
panda
Have to confess, I work in a small office with two other male co-workers and have often seen or heard them clipping their fingernails during work hours. That said, they usually have the courtesy to do it in their own waste baskets, as opposed to creepily collecting their nail clippings in a drawer.
May 31, 2011 at 11:53 am rating: 0
#22
Cris
I was taken aback until I read where the post came from… Madison, WI. You have to know where the weirdos live
May 31, 2011 at 12:19 pm rating: 0
#23
Car Title Loans
I really have never understood the reasoning behind cutting your nails at the office. As I realize sometimes it’s time to cut them, are you really that comfortable at work that you feel it necessary to take care of it then and there? Eesh!
May 31, 2011 at 2:12 pm rating: 0
#24
Dr_Know
There’s a dude who cuts his nails (hands and feet I’m pretty sure) in the stairwell of my unit. So gross…he also smokes in there too. Pretty sure that’s illegal :/
Jun 1, 2011 at 6:50 am rating: 0
#25
Roren
I live in Madison and just moved to a new office. I found old, yellow fingernails in my desk drawer. I wonder if it’s the same culprit?
What is wrong with people!?!?!?
Jun 3, 2011 at 8:06 pm rating: 0
#26
andria
While I don’t find fingernails “gross”, there is definitely a time and a place to be clipping them. The worse thing I’ve seen in regards to this is some guy clipping his nails on the bus and not giving two shits where his clippings were going. I mean, jeez, at least be courteous about it.
Jun 4, 2011 at 9:56 am rating: 0
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